Adam Gould |
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Author:
| O'Faolain, Julia |
ISBN: | 978-1-322-58182-8 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
Publisher: | Saqi Books
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $7.28 |
Book Description:
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Paris in the 1890s. Adam Gould, whose Anglo-Irish father has disowned him, works in a lunatic asylum run by the celebrated Dr Blanche, some of whose patients once starred in France s social firmament and still, when sane, sit at table with distinguished guests. One such patient is Guy de Maupassant. Another is Belcastel, who has taken the blame for a monarchist plot against the Third Republic, then feigned insanity. Madness and uncertain identity drive Adam s story, fuelled by...
More DescriptionParis in the 1890s. Adam Gould, whose Anglo-Irish father has disowned him, works in a lunatic asylum run by the celebrated Dr Blanche, some of whose patients once starred in France s social firmament and still, when sane, sit at table with distinguished guests. One such patient is Guy de Maupassant. Another is Belcastel, who has taken the blame for a monarchist plot against the Third Republic, then feigned insanity. Madness and uncertain identity drive Adam s story, fuelled by Maupassant s sparkling insights on the matter. Gould falls in love with a married connection of Belcastel s. And things are made no simpler on his return home, when he becomes entangled with a cousin who looks hauntingly like his dead mother.